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12 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
You ever gonna admit you spread a total lie to your hundreds of thousands of followers, or is that just something you think is totally cool?
Here's where the fake story about General Dynamics workers quitting en masse over vaccine mandates started. I'm not holding my breath for @pnjaban or any of the other blue-check accounts who spread this lie to correct it, although they should.
Same thing with the "Southwest Airlines pilot's strike" rumor. The pilots' union, the FAA, and Southwest's CEO have all repeatedly refuted it, but the blue-check parrots of the right just keep on parroting, and I'll be shocked if any of them retract it.
This pattern of refusal to correct false tweets is not limited to conservatives. None of the accounts depicted in this college (left or right) addressed their lies/errors, and Twitter searches confirm some of these false narratives still have traction.

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cc: @ZellaQuixote
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cc: @ZellaQuixote
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cc: @ZellaQuixote
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